Sneaky Shortcut Banana Bread
King Arthur Baking · kingarthurbaking.com · one 8 1 / 2" x 4 1 / 2" loaf (12 slices) / 2" loaf
Against 708 banana bread recipes
More banana than 93% of recipes and less egg than 90%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 708 banana bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More banana than 93% of recipes: 250% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 148%.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 21% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%, about half as much.
- No dairy at all, where 54% of recipes use some (most of those 25 to 60% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (10)
- 4 medium (600g) yellow bananas (400g peeled)600 g
- 1 cup (213g) light brown sugar, packed213 g
- 1/2 cup (99g) vegetable oil99 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 teaspoons King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract≈ 8 g
- 2 cups (240g) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour240 g
- 1 teaspoon baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt≈ 3 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- 2 tablespoons (23g) turbinado sugar or 2 tablespoons (28g) coarse sparkling sugar, for topping23 g
flour 240 gbatter 1221 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 708 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Banana250% · 94th percentile · median 148%
- Sugar89% · 71st percentile · median 78%
- Fat41% · 41st percentile · median 45%
- Egg21% · 10th percentile · median 40%
- Dairy0% · 23rd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening3.2% · 45th percentile · median 3.5%
- Salt1.3% · 70th percentile · median 1%
Oven
- Temperature
- 325°F / 165°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 45 to 50 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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